The Court of Appeal today decided that the decision by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) (formerly BiZ) to authorise arms exports to Saudi Arabia for potential use in Yemen was unlawful because the government had not taken into account Saudi Arabia’s past record...
The ECtHR has ruled on the plight of migrant children trapped in degrading conditions of detention in Greece caused in part by the closure of the Balkans corridor into the rest of Europe. Our client, Statewatch, submitted a third party intervention on this important case. DPG...
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The inquest opens today at Preston Coroner’s Court into the circumstances surrounding the killing of Cherylee Shennan on 17 March 2014. Cherylee died as a result of multiple stab wounds inflicted upon her by her partner Paul O’Hara. O’Hara was on life licence at the time...
HM Senior Coroner Richard Travers will sum up the evidence heard at Woking Coroner’s Court over the last three weeks. He will then ask the jury to retire to consider whether there were failings by Surrey police that contributed to Christine and Lucy’s deaths. Stacy Banner...
A jury has returned a critical conclusion in the first of a series of inquests concerned with deaths at HMP Nottingham. They unanimously found there was: Inadequate care and support from the mental health services. For instance, failure to re-book missed appointments, not creating a...
The Disability Justice Project, run by Inclusion London and supported by Deighton Pierce Glynn, is joining the London Legal Walk for the first time – to raise money for its vital work defending and protecting Deaf/Disabled people’s rights through raising awareness on the discrimination and...
In a powerful judgment handed down today Mrs Justice May ruled that the government’s proposed inquiry into mistreatment and abuse of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre by private security firm G4S officers will not comply with Article 3 of the European Convention on...
The High Court will today hand down an important judgment on whether the Home Office is meeting their duties to hold an effective investigation into the serious mistreatment and abuse of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) by officers of the private security...
The Home Office has agreed to review its ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy – a key plank of Theresa May’s hostile environment - and pay our clients compensation following successful legal action. In 2012 the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, decided that people granted limited...